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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Monday, November 27, 2017

While being challenged in the Courts, will the de-listing of Grizzly Bears in the Greater Yellowstone Wyoming region,,,,,,,,,,,,and ultimately Idaho and Montana, doom the bears to liberal trophy hunting provisions?............Watch some excellent videos, evaluate some revealing population maps and graphs and a read a full accounting of the current state of Grizzly management in their current Rocky Mountain territory by clicking on the link below.............Thanks to ecologist/activist George Wuerthner for providing this article.



Biologists and their maps agree: GRIZZLY BEARS are coming to southwestern Montana

 Dean Peterson, a rangy fourth-generation rancher with a handlebar mustache, is used to factoring in all sorts of challenges as he works his vast spread in the Big Hole Valley. Summer wildfires that can sweep down the pine-blanketed mountains to the west, harsh winters that can endanger his thousand-plus head of cattle.


Yet in the back of his mind these days is
a threat most of his forefathers 
never faced: grizzly bears. Settlers pushing
 West had all but exterminated
 the hulking predators by the time
Peterson’s great-grandfather arrived 
here in the late 1800s.
A year ago, however, a trail camera
 in the nearby forest snapped a grainy
 photo of a grizzly crossing a stream,
marking the first confirmed sighting
 in the valley in a century. Then in
May, Peterson was stunned to see one 
lope across a snow-dusted road as
 he drove a four-wheeler a few miles
 from his property.
BELOW IN DARK BROWN IS 2017
 CURRENT DAY GRIZZLY HABITAT 
AND IN YELLOW IS THE HISTORIC
RANGE OF THE GRIZZLY PRE 
EUROPEAN CONTACT:  A.D. 1500

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